Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you. Whether it be films featuring crazy stunt folks like Deathcheaters, movies with lots of comical splatter and gore such as Body Melt, or post-apocalyptic road flicks involving homemade armored cars duking it out over a tank of juice such as Mad Max, the land down under never fails to … Continue reading Wyrmwood (2014)
Australian stuntmen engage in covert missions, perform death-defying stunts, and drink and shag women whose names they don't remember! Huh, the “stuntmen” part of that sentence seems redundant. Steve Hall and Rodney Cann are a couple of stuntmen working in the Australian film and TV industry in the 1970s. The two are undeniable thrill seekers, … Continue reading Deathcheaters (1976)
For some reason I spent years getting this movie confused with Lake Placid, so I kept wondering when the killer alligator would show up. No such luck, this is a ghost story, through and through. Lake Mungo is a mockumentary, though I have some trouble with that term. The term 'mockumentary' has always made me think of … Continue reading Lake Mungo (2008)
Yeah, that's right, I followed Dead Weekend with another weekend movie, Long Weekend, and I did it in the middle of the week. I'm edgy, woo. I'll see myself out. Long Weekend is a 1978 Australian horror film about a couple in a failing marriage on a camping trip to the beach, where they pollute, … Continue reading Long Weekend (1978)
Oh, oh man. You know when you find a movie so bizarre, so grotesque, that you just have to talk about it? Body Melt is that kind of movie. It's an Australian body horror splatter film from the early 1990s, and it reflects that in every possible way: the soundtrack is early '90s dance beats, … Continue reading Body Melt (1993)
Imagine you are narcoleptic. Now imagine your sister is a sensual goth lady with a thing for death photography, your parents are strangely absent, you can't tell whether you're awake or dreaming, and your world was imagined by David Lynch. Now...imagine you have the hots for your sister. That's Wakey Wakey, a bizarre yet alluring … Continue reading Wakey Wakey (2012)
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